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- Season 11 Ancient Life as Old as the Universe
- Season 11 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
- Season 11 How to Win an Interstellar War
- Season 11 The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The Universe
- Season 11 The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
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Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell - Season 11 Episode 18 The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
8.30 10 minutes In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams.
There are many different reasons for this, but one gets blamed a lot: social media. Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world. New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.
